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Alpine Inn Building at Christina Lake May Be Added to Heritage Registry
I recently found an article by Greg Nesteroff in the Grand Forks Now about the storage shed at Alpine Inn at Christina Lake that may be added to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary’s heritage register. Alpine Inn mainly consisted of a hotel and cabins that housed Japanese Canadian internees during WWII. There is a…
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Powell Street Festival
Last week, my family attended the 50th Powell Street Festival in Vancouver. It is a celebration of all things Japanese Canadian. There were performing arts shows such as taiko, dance, and other musical performances, community group displays, food, workshops, and tours. On Saturday, Aug. 1, my wife and daughter attended a talk by Art Miki…
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To See is to Remember
It was a privilege to meet Marlene Howell (née Seki) in person at her gallery opening reception at the Goldfinch Arts Centre in Colwood, B.C. Colwood is a suburb of Victoria. Her exhibition is entitled To See is to Remember and it includes 12 of her works created over the past two years. As well,…
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My article has been published!
My article Kishizo Kimura and the Nippon Tennis Club has been published in Nikkei Images magazine. It is on pp. 16-25 of Volume 31, No. 1. You can read it here.
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JCLS Intergenerational Wellness Gathering
Recently, my wife and I attended a gathering of people who were involved in the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society Intergenerational Wellness grants program of which this website was a product. A study about the thoughts and reflections from the Family Sharing and Healing grant recipients was led by Lucy Komori. It was she who conducted…
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Izumi – Kishi Family Connection
Thanks to my fourth cousin Meiko Izumi, the Landscapes of Injustice database, kosekis, and census data, I have more information about the connection between the Kishi and Izumi families. It starts with Kiku Kishi (born 1840), the younger sister of Shojiro, my great great grandfather. She married Uuemon Izumi and they had 4 sons. The…
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Alpine Inn Residents During WWII
I have recently added a spreadsheet to this site that I have been working on intermittently for the past two years. It lists all the residents I could find who lived at Alpine Inn, a self-supporting site located at Christina Lake, BC, during WWII. Thanks to Kathleen Smythe and Nobby Hamagami who did the majority…
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Mourning Sky
We visited the Umami Art Exhibit at the Nikkei National Museum this past weekend when we attended the Nikkei Matsuri celebration. I was surprised by an artwork by Marlene Howell entitled Mourning Sky. It was a painting of confiscated Japanese Canadian fishing boats surrounded by a collage of letters and fishing boat registry pages from…